Gorgeous George, Lord Bob and Bolivia

The morning after Live 8, George Galloway is summing up how many on the alternative side of the protest movement feel about the event. He asks, rather sardonically, if we should not now refer to Sir Bob as Lord Bob and discloses he had difficulty keeping down his breakfast when he saw the photographs of Tony Blair and Geldof at the MTV interview with "Bob resting his head on Tony's shoulder like Cherie."

Blair is the target of much of much of his speech. He accuses him of a "grotesquely cynical manoeuvre" in placing himself at the forefront of the anti-poverty campaign, and says that if "Sir Bob and Sir Bono" really wanted to help, they would stand in Whitehall and call on poor countries to tear up the debts because they have already paid.

The Respect MP - who formed a new party when he was expelled from Labour - even questions the prime minister's concern for Africa. "It's no accident that Blair has chosen Africa, where there is no ideological opposition," he says. "He is not talking about poverty in the Muslim world, not talking about Latin America because people are rising in revolution. The people of Bolivia have given their answer to the G8." In Edinburgh's Usher Hall, if not Downing Street, Mr Galloway is a very popular speaker.